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spir-13408	Conner, Viki	FEVER DREAMS AND THE FUTURE OF NOSTALGIA ON TIKTOK	2023.0	6	.pdf	application/pdf	1909	137	45	FEVER DREAMS AND THE FUTURE OF NOSTALGIA ON TIKTOK Viki Askounis Conner University of Illinois – Chicago From politics to popular culture, no aspect of contemporary society appears to be immune from nostalgia – the bittersweet emotion commonly associated with “a sentimental longing for the past” (Sedikides & Wildschut, 2019). To the extent digital media condition us to see the world through nostalgia-colored glasses at the same time that they afford new forms of nostalgic expression, the political issue at stake is whether these emergent social formations of nostalgia invite us to look regressively (restoratively) back or enable us to move forward imaginatively (reflectively) in the face of the complex problems facing societies around the world, as Svetlana Boym (2001) invites us to consider in The Future of Nostalgia.	cache/spir-13408.pdf	txt/spir-13408.txt